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  1. Posts : 16,786
    Windows 10 Home x64 Version 22H2 Build 19045.4170
       #90

    Roger,

    See @angelotti solution, post #11 of this tutorial thread - Network sharing only with named users [angelotti] - TenForums

    Denis
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  2. Posts : 8
    Windows 10 Pro 64 bit ver 1909
       #91

    Thanks Denis, I shall give this a go tomorrow morning. (Bit late in the evening here in Oz for any sharing snafus...)
    Roger V.

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    Hello again, Denis,
    I did try the solution put forward by @angelotti but unfortunately I couldn't make it work.
    (For one thing, was no "Advanced User Accounts" in the control panel, but Shawn's tutorial fixed that for me.)

    But as to the network access, I kept getting this error message:

    Share Files and Folders Over a Network in Windows 10-network-error-200114.jpg

    If I shared with "homeusers" I could access the folder, but as with "everyone", other users on computer "SCH-Desktop1" (Fred's real name...) could access the folder, which I don't want to happen.
    I wasn't using "advanced sharing", rather I just used the "give access to | specific people" dialog by right clicking on the folder context menu. But would that have made a difference in this case?
    (And if I made a critical mistake, I'm happy to be corrected. )
    (Edit: Oops... see below. )
    Any other suggestions would be welcome.
    (Edit: aside from "read the post more carefully, matey" ; I've already given myself an uppercut for that. )
    Thanks again,
    Roger V.

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    Edit:
    Now that I've read up on the "advanced sharing" I realise that it's quite different to the simpler form of sharing, so I have some further homework to do before asking more dumb questions.
    Thanks again,
    Roger V.

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    Sorry... another edit:
    I tried using "advanced sharing" giving read / write permission to user "Roger" (which exists on both PCs with an identical password) but even then the dreaded error "Windows cannot access \\SCH-Desktop1\_Johns iPad photos" popped up again. Only by using "everyone" or "homeusers" can I gain access to the shared folder. Darn. Just can't quite figure it out. Time to head off to the snore-shelf...
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  3. Posts : 16,786
    Windows 10 Home x64 Version 22H2 Build 19045.4170
       #92

    Roger,

    There is no reference to "Advanced User Accounts" in angelotti's guide.

    I just use "everyone" for my file sharing. Therefore I would simply not share a folder that I didn't want to let everyone see.

    If you cannot get it working using angelotti's guide & if you cannot find any guidance elsewhere in the forum, I suggest creating a thread of your own called something like Cannot set up network sharing for specific users

    Denis
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  4. Posts : 8
    Windows 10 Pro 64 bit ver 1909
       #93

    Hi Denis,
    Thanks for your suggestions, they are much appreciated.
    Re "Advanced User Accounts", you're quite correct, angelotti's guide doesn't mention it. When I tried to follow the instructions regarding changing the group a user belonged to on my Windows 10 Home pc, I couldn't find "Local Users and Groups" in the Computer Management snap in. However, it does exist in Windows 10 Pro, which I have on my main desktop pc. (It's slow, but it still works! ) Perhaps angelotti was preparing the guide sitting at a Windows 10 Pro box? (His profile doesn't mention pro or home.)
    I found that I had to add Advanced User Accounts to the control panel to allow me to edit what group my new user was a member of.
    Anyway, I've got to go and do more studying, so thanks again.
    Roger V.
    Last edited by rogerval; 14 Jan 2020 at 14:34. Reason: Minor corrections
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  5. Posts : 1
    windows 10 SLTC 2019
       #94

    Hello! I have a similar problem and have solved in a way which I'd like to share with you all.

    I've recently installed windows 10 LTSC 2019 on one of my computer while the other one kept running windows 7. When trying to access the shared folders on the windows 7 machine from the windows 10 using explorer the code error v0x80070035 "The network path was not found" would show up.

    I found the solution here: Error Code: 0x80070035 “The Network Path was not found” after Windows 10 Update | Windows OS Hub

    I had to Enable Insecure Guest Logons by entering the group policy editor ("Windows key + R" then type "gpedit.msc"). To the Enable insecure guest logons policy in the GPO section navigate to Computer Configuration -> Administrative templates -> Network -> Lanman Workstation and set "enable insecure guests logon" to "enable".

    I understand this may not be recommended secure-wise. A more secure workaround would be much appreciated.

    Thanks!
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  6. Posts : 740
    Windows 10 x64 Pro
       #95

    I have 2 questions regarding network shares.

    1) ive noticed (on my pc at least) that trying to share a drive wont present with the wizard, you have to use advanced sharing? Is this right or is something wonky on my end?

    2) i'm trying to set up my shared drives in such a way that only I have access. I only want them shared between my pc's, and between things like my nvidia shield units. Up until now, i have had all my drives shared with advanced sharing and everyone group with full permissions. It's worked fine but my kids are now coming up on the age that they're going to have their own pc, and I'd probably jump off a bridge if they destroyed some of the data I have sequestered in various places.

    Is my best course of/proper course of action going to be simply removing all permissions from the everyone group, and adding my windows user account as the group with full permissions instead?
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  7. HDL
    Posts : 103
    Windows 10
       #96

    I just recently saw the above tutorial for sharing files and folders over a network. I just became a member and, as a matter of fact, this is my first post. Admittedly, I did not read every post in this thread. However, I am assuming the main subject is the topic of this thread. So with that in mind I'd like to ask the following.

    I have 4 computers, 3 of which are connected by an Ethernet cable and the 4th one by a very strong WiFi signal. I have everything set just as it says to have in Option One above. I still cannot see all my computers using Windows File Explorer's "Network" option in the left column of the File Explorer. Sometimes I see 1 computer, sometimes 2 computers, sometimes 3, and very rarely all 4 of them. They are all Windows 10 computers with version 1909 but this problem has been essentially the same ever since the switch to Win 10 occurred. Is there anything, other than having all the settings set to what Option One say to do, that I can do now to make all 4 of my computers visible in File Explorer?

    Thanks.
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  8. Posts : 740
    Windows 10 x64 Pro
       #97

    HDL said:
    I just recently saw the above tutorial for sharing files and folders over a network. I just became a member and, as a matter of fact, this is my first post. Admittedly, I did not read every post in this thread. However, I am assuming the main subject is the topic of this thread. So with that in mind I'd like to ask the following.

    I have 4 computers, 3 of which are connected by an Ethernet cable and the 4th one by a very strong WiFi signal. I have everything set just as it says to have in Option One above. I still cannot see all my computers using Windows File Explorer's "Network" option in the left column of the File Explorer. Sometimes I see 1 computer, sometimes 2 computers, sometimes 3, and very rarely all 4 of them. They are all Windows 10 computers with version 1909 but this problem has been essentially the same ever since the switch to Win 10 occurred. Is there anything, other than having all the settings set to what Option One say to do, that I can do now to make all 4 of my computers visible in File Explorer?

    Thanks.
    dont quote me on this as im relatively shaky myself, but its largely dependent on the order the pc's are started up. the first will be designated the master browser and should see everything thats online. However if more than one pc is online, and the master browser is shutdown or restarted even - another pc will be designated as the master browser and you wont be able to see others on the initial pc. So on and so forth.

    Ive circumvented this by disabling the browser service on all pc's except for my main pc. I added the ip address and the netbios name of all my workstations to each pc's hosts file so without master browser, they can still see eachother.

    its disappointing how primitive windows local networking is considering how far along everything else has come.

    course we're still limited to 15 shell icon overlays so :P
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  9. HDL
    Posts : 103
    Windows 10
       #98

    klepp0906 said:
    dont quote me on this as im relatively shaky myself, but its largely dependent on the order the pc's are started up. the first will be designated the master browser and should see everything thats online. However if more than one pc is online, and the master browser is shutdown or restarted even - another pc will be designated as the master browser and you wont be able to see others on the initial pc. So on and so forth.

    Ive circumvented this by disabling the browser service on all pc's except for my main pc. I added the ip address and the netbios name of all my workstations to each pc's hosts file so without master browser, they can still see eachother.

    its disappointing how primitive windows local networking is considering how far along everything else has come.

    course we're still limited to 15 shell icon overlays so :P
    Thank you. That is very interesting but I do always start my computers in the same order. This has never been done intentionally but that is the way I have always do it. Of course there may have been a time or two when my wife started them but it just doesn't seem to matter.

    I am not at all familiar with what you mean when saying you disabled the browser service on all your pc's. However, at one time it was suggested to me that I assign static IP addresses to my computers and that made my problem worse. I don't remember all the problems I had with doing that but they were enough I quickly removed the static IP addresses.

    Does it seem strange to you that whatever is the cause of my problem it would be affecting all 4 computers the same? Never had this problem when using Win 7 but now all my computers are running Win 10 ver. 1909. This network problem started happening when Win 10 came into the picture for me. It used to be that every time Win 10 updated, permissions had to be reset and the password protection, again, had to be disabled. That is not so much the case lately but viewing my network computers is still not reliable.
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  10. Posts : 740
    Windows 10 x64 Pro
       #99

    HDL said:
    Thank you. That is very interesting but I do always start my computers in the same order. This has never been done intentionally but that is the way I have always do it. Of course there may have been a time or two when my wife started them but it just doesn't seem to matter.

    I am not at all familiar with what you mean when saying you disabled the browser service on all your pc's. However, at one time it was suggested to me that I assign static IP addresses to my computers and that made my problem worse. I don't remember all the problems I had with doing that but they were enough I quickly removed the static IP addresses.

    Does it seem strange to you that whatever is the cause of my problem it would be affecting all 4 computers the same? Never had this problem when using Win 7 but now all my computers are running Win 10 ver. 1909. This network problem started happening when Win 10 came into the picture for me. It used to be that every time Win 10 updated, permissions had to be reset and the password protection, again, had to be disabled. That is not so much the case lately but viewing my network computers is still not reliable.
    yea windows 10 is when it got bad, they removed homegroup which made things substantially easier.

    the computer browser service is just another windows service in services.msc and yes, you'd need to assign a static IP to each pc if you used the method i indicated.

    ive been doing it that way problem free for probably years now. if the IP address ever changes, i simply update the hosts files on the other pcs. also major version updates seem to be re-enabling the computer browser service so i have to re-disable that once every blue moon.

    otherwise the only thing i can suggest is changing function discovery provider host and function discovery resource publication to automatic.

    that often helps with discovery.

    its not an uncommon problem, if you google it you will find a half a dozen variations of the same workarounds. Hopefully something out there works for ya, just know its not your pc(s) specifically. Its M$ stuff :P
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